A fire that damaged a Lehigh Acres house overnight is being blamed on a nightlight.

The flames started in a child's room at a home on Bruce Avenue South near 29th Street Southwest.

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning the Cyrus family woke up to the sound of smoke detectors. They soon found out there was a fire inside the bedroom where their 4-year-old daughter and 8-year-old niece were sleeping. It spread across a wall and to the bed before their dad was able to put it out.

When the smoke cleared, they couldn't believe what they saw.

"We thought it was the nightlight. And then when the fire department came, they confirmed that it was the nightlight that caused it," said Marie Cyrus, the mother of the four year-old whose bedroom caught on fire. "I'm surprised because we've used nightlights since my children were babies and nothing. Then all of a sudden, this. So I don't know I'm just beside myself."

The Lehigh Acres Fire Department said that they cannot confirm it was the nightlight that caused the fire.

They say the probable cause was overheating or a possible failure in the electrical outlet.

But later, an electrician examined the outlet and determined it was the nightlight that sparked the fire.

The Cyrus family isn't sure which brand of nightlight it was or why it sparked in the first place.